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As a growing problem in the world, negative emotions caused by awareness of environmental and climate changes are seen as one of the biggest mental health crises of our generation. This study examines young women's relationship to eco-emotions through a thematic analysis to improve understanding of how this group can be affected by these emotions and how they can live with them. Women and youn
The Hamas terrorist attack on October 7th 2023 constituted an event with great impact on both Israel and the Middle East, and much focus has been given to its effects in terms of the war in Gaza. Simultaneously, settlements in the West Bank have risen to unprecedented levels, and have increasingly been given explicit governmental support. Furthermore, official Israeli sovereignty over the West Ban
This comparative study aims to analyze the ways Hollywood producers and filmmakers turn European films into ones of their own and why they are often reflected upon as being worse than its predecessors. The analysis primarily uses the French film The Intouchables (2011) and its Hollywood remake, The Upside (2017) as a way to explore this. This study furthermore investigates the reasons behind this
This thesis explores how public libraries in Lund, Sweden, and various regions of Nepal function as inclusive community spaces. Drawing on ethnographic methods including observation, interviews, digital ethnography, and surveys, it compares the everyday experiences of library users in two different national contexts. Grounded in theories of the public sphere by Habermas and Risse, and their critiq
This paper explores how the regional policies of Sweden and Norway have impactedthe respective peripheral regions of Västerbotten and Troms. There is a variety ofmaterial used in this text, ranging from government white papers, policy documents,statistical data taken from governmental databases. The theory of CumulativeCausation as well as the analytical framework of Historical Institutionalism wi
This essay builds upon the theories of role language advocated by Satoshi Kinsui, as well as the archetype theories of Christopher Vogler, Joseph Campbell and Carl Gustav Jung. Kinsui argues that role language styles in Japanese are connected to the characters archetypes described by Vogler, and proceeds to connect three language styles to archetypes. This essay seeks to find common role language
This paper takes a critical look at current methodologies used by business for assessing impacts on indigenous communities dependent upon natural resources for the maintenance of their traditional way of life. It argues that new human-centered, holistic and bottom-up approaches can contribute to a greater understanding of direct, indirect and cumulative impacts of resource development on indigenou
Urban Agriculture (UA) in becoming more visible globally, in part due to the crisis of the food system in 2007-8 but also due to recognition of the benefits of the practice in providing food, biodiversity and contributions toward sustainability. UA is considered in this thesis as a form of ‘food system relocalization’ which provides an alternative to the global food system. Relocalizing food syste
This study examines equity and governance issues in rural drinking water supply (RDWS) in Uttar Pradesh, North India, in the context of the current decentralisation reforms in the sector. It reviews the available literature on decentralisation and illuminates different perspectives and arguments to provide a rationale for understanding the reform initiatives in Uttar Pradesh. The study then analys
Internally displaced women hold together the social fabric of society; they are resilient, resourceful and creative in ensuring the well-being of their families following forced displacement. By utilizing the analytical framework of the actor-oriented approach, and the concepts of feminization of poverty and response strategies, this research demonstrates that women’s agency, as actors in the reco
This thesis examines the potential of a social economy-based microenterprise model as a new community development tool in the special context of indigenous Quechua communities in rural Peru where their socio-economic realities are substantially different from the modern society. Although, the social economy-based development policies are widely discussed in many Latin American countries, only litt
Klimatförändringar har amplifierats sedan den industriella revolutionen och modeller pekar på att förändringen kommer forsätta att öka åtminstone till slutet av detta århundrande. Globala temperaturer och nederbörd förväntas öka avsevärt under detta århundrade. Dessa ökningar förväntas bli särskilt markanta i de arktiska områdena. Torvmyrar belägna på höga latituder vid 0ºC isothermen, såsom StorfThe rate of change of our climate has been amplified since the industrial revolution and is expected to change even further by the end of this century. Global temperature and precipitation are expected to increase considerably over the next century. These increases are expected to be magnified in the Arctic regions. In a high latitude peatland like Storflaket, near Abisko (Northern Sweden), at the
A large number of studies have shown that macroeconomic variables can explain co-movements in stock market returns in developed markets. The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether this relation also holds in China’s two stock markets. By doing a heteroscedastic cointegration analysis, the long run relation is investigated. The results show that it is difficult to determine if a cointegrat
In Cameroon, there is a tradition for heterosexual family system inherent in a patriarchal order of things; accordingly, this study shed light on how gender pervades into, and ‘force’ migrants to remit in order to fulfill family expectations at the country of origin. Contemporary academic studies and reports from various organizations have highlighted the active role of women as migrants and remit
In times of globalization, cultural contact is a phenomenon that occurs on a daily basis. Immigration is a big contributor to the cultural contact. The phenomenon of immigration brings about many essential questions that can be hard to adjust to. The acculturation process itself is dependent of factors such as the contemporary societal climate as well as the active role of the immigrant. Questions
Human trafficking is a transnational phenomenon and it has been one of the most hotly debated issues in the development agenda for the last decade. This thesis focuses the attention on the phenomenon of women trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation and takes as a case study the Republic of Albania. Albania has been, especially during the 90s, widely touched by the phenomenon, and since
The aim of this work is to critically examine the multimodal aspect of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea (the Rotterdam Rules), in order to determine if the Convention would, in practice, bring the long desired legal uniformity and an overall beneficial environment for the shipping industry. The focus is on the liability prov
